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So you mind me asking how you set that up, or what you bought? Have they been reliable?

I mean in my case I wouldn't broadly recommend my approach: I bought these https://www.zemismart.com/products/zm25tq-2-25 and then chip-swapped them with ESP8266s. That's definitely not a casual thing but... What I'm most happy about is how I got them hardwired - I notched my cornice and slid an archetrave (narrow) light switch up into the cornice on a mounting block, caulked around it, and then ran a thin bit of sur…

I've also been looking at hard wired blind motors I can control with an ESP8266.

Did you write/record anything online about the chip swapping, or can you recommend any resources?

Did you end up deciding on something easier to decloud for your future ones?

Thanks!

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